Five years ago today, I gave birth to a perfect and beautiful but stillborn baby boy, Matthew. Matthew. His meager worldly memories fit in a shoe box, so it is his name that I cling to and use to assure myself that this day five years ago was real, that he was real. And while… Read More
We’re wrapping up an exceptional Thanksgiving Eve around these parts. I didn’t lift a finger as far as food prep for tomorrow… or do anything else truly worthwhile as far as those sorts of things go. Instead, our little party of four spent the day jaunting around town on all sorts of fun outings. Here’s… Read More
Y’all the only way I can really describe this day is one big *womp womp*… If you were thinking, “oh, she must have spent her morning at the Jeep collision center after someone rammed into her parked and unoccupied car at Publix while she was purchasing her Thanksgiving groceries with a three year old screaming… Read More
After a three year hunt for the perfect piece to sit between the windows in our bedroom, Honey got me this gorg antique china cabinet for my birthday back in March. I know… a bedroom seems a strange place for a china cabinet but she’s quite petite, antique, was priced right ($100 on Craigslist) and… Read More
Each year a gaggle of my best college gals and I reunite for a weekend of shopping, wining and dining. We’ve done NYC (a couple of times), Chicago, Savannah, the mountains (many times) and the beach and, sadly, as our littles get older it doesn’t get any easier to get away. So, when we were… Read More
Mother and Daddy-O just left after a marathon two week visit and we already miss them terribly. (It never does get easier to say farewell.) While they were here we made one of the stops on the Piedmont Pilgrimage, the 10th annual tour of Atlanta’s best model railroads. The working model railroad that we visited… Read More
I want to thank y’all for taking time this week to send so many kind, heartfelt and encouraging comments, emails and prayers to me, to sweet little Bird and to our family. The outpouring of support through Bird’s surgery, and as we wait on his test results, has been gracious and heartening. (I sure hope… Read More